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Finally to remove all reason for
feeling surprise at the employment of apostrophe,
Cicero in his defence of Scaurus,1 on a charge of
bribery (the speech is to be found in his Notebooks;
for he defended him twice) actually introduces an
imaginary person speaking on behalf of the accused,
while in his pro Rahirio and his speech in defence
of this same Scaurus on a charge of extortion he
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employs illustrations, and in the pro Cluentio, as I
have already pointed out, introduces division into
heads.
1 This speech is lost: the existing speech in his defence is on the charge of extortion.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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